• Scientific Name: Campanula punctata Lam.
• Ref: Encycl. 1:586. 1785
• English Common Name: spotted bellflower
• Chinese Common Name: 紫斑风铃草 zǐbān fēnglíng∙cǎo
• Japanese Common Name: ホタルブクロ [蛍袋] hotarubukuro
• Family: Campanulaceae
• Genus: Campanula
• Distribution: Forests, thickets, meadows; below 2300 m. E Gansu, Hebei, Heilongjiang, W Henan, W Hubei, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Mongol, Shaanxi, Shanxi, NE Sichuan [Japan, Korea, Russia (Far East, Siberia); widely cultivated].
• Photo: Mt. Changbai, Jilin

Plants perennial, setose throughout or rarely subglabrous. Rhizomes long, horizontal. Stems erect, robust, 20-100 cm tall, usually branched above. Basal leaves long petiolate; blade cordate or ovate; cauline leaves ovate, lanceolate, or triangular, base rounded or truncate, margin irregularly dentate, apex acute or acuminate; lower leaves winged-petiolate, upper ones sessile. Flowers terminal on top of main stems and branches, pendent. Calyx lobes narrowly triangular; reflexed appendages elliptic, triangular, ovate, or lanceolate. Corolla white, yellow, or pink, commonly purple- or red punctate, tubular-campanulate, 3-6.5 cm. Capsule broadly campanulate or obconic. Seeds gray-brown, oblong or elliptic, slightly compressed, ca. 1 mm, smooth. Fl. Jun-Sep, fr. Sep-Oct. 2n = 34. (Flora of China)

Mt. Changbai, Jilin